The opportunity
We believe in the everyday hero. Those who have the courage to follow their passion and who have the strength and determination to realise their dreams.
What you'll do
Build and evolve the SumUp’s core banking services that powers ledger: operations and transactions, transforming our regional systems into a unified, scalable global platform.
Tackle complex distributed systems challenges, ensuring resilient services: that continue to perform under high transaction volumes.
Support modernization initiatives by improving observability, adding test: coverage, refactoring code for long-term maintainability, and gradually introducing new architectural patterns without disrupting live banking operations.
Contribute to architectural decisions: build ledger and transaction history systems from the ground up, ensuring a globally scalable banking solution for our clients.
Collaborate with teams across Risk, Treasury, Finance, and Infrastructure to: ensure smooth, compliant, and reliable global operations
Take ownership from design to production, running the services you build,: monitoring their performance, and continuously improving how we deliver high-quality software at scale.
What they're looking for
- You have solid backend experience building reliable, high-volume services and: you think carefully about system design, APIs, data modeling, and how services interact.
- You are proficient in Golang and/or Kotlin and comfortable learning and: working with other languages as needed, e.g. Elixir.
- You write maintainable, well-tested code, follow CI/CD best practices, and: take responsibility for the software you build from development to production.
- You’re comfortable building, deploying, and running services in cloud: environments like AWS using Docker and Kubernetes.
